GET PEOPLE ENGAGED FROM THE BEGINING - AND KEEP IT AS A CONVESATION
To start, 3 days is a LOT!! But anyway, my advice is not to give a class, but just start a CONVERSATION.. Stay away from PowerPoint as much as possible and use it only as a guide or time management tool.... As a general rule, you need to captivate your audience in the first 5 minutes (getting them interested).. The best way to do this is of course with a good introduction... Don’t start with boring facts about you (sorry, your bio may be interesting, but probably not for the start) Instead, talk to the audience about THEM.. I always tell them how IMPORTANT their jobs are in feeding the people but also on keeping the consumer safe and alive!! I ask thinks like; Do you trust the food you buy? Also, I ask them.. Do you know that when a product is contaminated, elderly and kids are more likely to get sick or die?. How would you feel if your own child get sick or die from something you bought at the supermarket? That is why your job and food safety are so important, THAT WILL GET THEM ENGAGED...
Of course it depends of your audience.. here I’m assuming are plant workers, but if is management you need to better use the topics of money and JAIL… (yes. make it extreme) and the best recent case is JENSEN.. I bet if you start by telling management that lack of food safety commitment can not only take their companies, (and/or themselves) to bankruptcy, but could also take them to jail.. PLUS having to live with the regret that somebody died..., that will get them engaged…
After that, try to keep it as a conversations instead of a lecture… safety lectures are boring no matter what you do, but conversations where people participate are better.. for this ask questions such as .. Who knows about this? What do you think of? Have this happened to you? What do you think is the best thing to do? ..etc.. In Safety everybody knows, or think to know a thing or two, which can make people disengaged, so use that to your advantage finding a way to get those people to participate..
Edited by Antores, 08 November 2013 - 01:58 PM.